Wycliffe - Job - 5

5:1  Therfor clepe thou, if `ony is that schal answere thee, and turne thou to summe of seyntis.

5:2  Wrathfulnesse sleeth `a fonned man, and enuye sleeth a litil child.

5:3  Y siy a fool with stidefast rote, and Y curside his feirnesse anoon.

5:4  Hise sones schulen be maad fer fro helthe, and thei schulen be defoulid in the yate, and `noon schal be that schal delyuere hem.

5:5  Whos ripe corn an hungri man schal ete, and an armed man schal rauysche hym, and thei, that thirsten, schulen drynke hise richessis.

5:6  No thing is doon in erthe with out cause, and sorewe schal not go out of the erthe.

5:7  A man is borun to labour, and a brid to fliyt.

5:8  Wherfor Y schal biseche the Lord, and Y schal sette my speche to my God.

5:9  That makith grete thingis, and that moun not be souyt out, and wondurful thingis with out noumbre.

5:10  Which yyueth reyn on the face of erthe, and moistith alle thingis with watris.

5:11  Which settith meke men an hiy, and reisith with helthe hem that morenen.

5:12  Which distrieth the thouytis of yuel willid men, that her hondis moun not fille tho thingis that thei bigunnen.

5:13  Which takith cautelouse men in the felnesse `of hem, and distrieth the counsel of schrewis.

5:14  Bi dai thei schulen renne in to derknessis, and as in nyyt so thei schulen grope in myddai.

5:15  Certis God schal make saaf a nedi man fro the swerd of her mouth, and a pore man fro the hond of the violent, `ethir rauynour.

5:16  And hope schal be to a nedi man, but wickidnesse schal drawe togidere his mouth.

5:17  Blessid is the man, which is chastisid of the Lord; therfor repreue thou not the blamyng of the Lord.

5:18  For he woundith, and doith medicyn; he smytith, and hise hondis schulen make hool.

5:19  In sixe tribulaciouns he schal delyuere thee, and in the seuenthe tribulacioun yuel schal not touche thee.

5:20  In hungur he schal delyuere thee fro deeth, and in batel fro the power of swerd.

5:21  Thou schalt be hid fro the scourge of tunge, and thou schalt not drede myseiste, `ethir wretchidnesse, whanne it cometh.

5:22  In distriyng maad of enemyes and in hungur thou schalt leiye, and thou schalt not drede the beestis of erthe.

5:23  But thi couenaunt schal be with the stonys of erthe, and beestis of erthe schulen be pesible to thee.

5:24  And thou schalt wite, that thi tabernacle hath pees, and thou visitynge thi fairnesse schalt not do synne.

5:25  And thou schalt wite also, that thi seed schal be many fold, and thi generacioun schal be as an erbe of erthe.

5:26  In abundaunce thou schalt go in to the sepulcre, as an heep of wheete is borun in his tyme.

5:27  Lo! this is so, as we han souyt; which thing herd, trete thou in minde.